Visiting Scholars

In the fall of 2002, IES, under the auspices of the EU Center, sponsored the visit of Professor Meinolf Dierkes, former president of the Science Center for Social Research (Wissenschaftszentrum) in Berlin and currently Professor of The Sociology of Technology and Science at the Technical University of Berlin and Director of the Research Unit ‘Organization and Technology' at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin. He is a board member of several European companies and management institutes. He has also been invited as a Distinguished Research Professor to the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and served as founding dean of the Tel Aviv International Business School. In the fall of 2002 Professor Dierkes led a 10 week undergraduate seminar on the European Union entitled: "Europe in Transition." Forty upper division undergraduate students participated in this seminar. He also participated in the IES September Roundtable on the German Elections. The roundtable was attended by over 100 members of the campus community and the interested public.

Professor Jost Halfmann was a Visiting Scholar at the EU Center from 12 February to 31 May 2003. Professor Halfmann was visiting from the Technical University of Dresden where he teaches Sociology. He has published widely in the field of political sociology and in the field of the sociology of technology. He co-organized the lecture series "Transatlantic Turbulence" during the spring semester of 2003, bringing prominent European speakers to the Institute. He arranged the visits of Professor Ernst-Otto Czempiel (Professor emeritus of International Politics at the University of Frankfurt) und Professor Thomas Risse (Professor International Politics at the Free University of Berlin).

Professor Halfmann also led a workshop and gave a public lecture on behalf of the EU Center. The first, on April 17, 2003, focused on fundamentalist terrorism, and was part of the "Transatlantic Turbulence" workshop series. His remarks are published in the Occasional Papers series of the Institute and can be found at ies.berkeley.edu/pubs. In addition, Professor Halfmann gave a lecture entitled "Transatlantic differences in perceiving and addressing terrorism: The US and Germany in comparison" in an undergraduate course on American foreign policy. That lecture was attended by 200 students. While at the Institute, Professor Halfmann continued his project on the evolution of the German nation state, which will be published as a book by Palgrave in 2005.

In the spring of 2003, IES also hosted University professor Dr. Dieter F. Stiefelof the Department for Social and Economic History at Vienna University. Professor Stiefel has published widely in the fields of economic history and European integration studies, and he is the Director of the Vienna "Schumpeter Society." While at Berkeley, he worked with IES Acting Director Barry Eichengreen on the design of a joint Berkeley-Vienna project on EU enlargement, to be sponsored next year by the EU Center.

In April and May 2003, IES hosted Josef Joffe, editor and publisher of Die Zeit, Holger Appel from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung; and Federico Rampini, the West Coast Editor of La Republica. These distinguished journalists discussed European views of transatlantic relations from the perspective of the European media. IES also hosted Professor Olivier Roy, a Senior Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, in Paris; and Professor Jose Bastos, Professor in the Department of Anthropology, FCSH (Faculty of Social and Human Sciences), Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Professor Bastos, who directs the Center for the Study of Migrations and Ethnic Minorities, presented a series of seminars at IES on changing attitudes toward ethnic minorities in the new members of the European Union and the prospects for heightened ethnic tension in the EU after enlargement. He also contributed to the development of the Institute's project on Europe's Changing Geographies.

As part of its academic outreach effort, IES has hosted numerous short-term European visitors and guest scholars over the past year. Visiting for a period of 3 to 5 days, these visitors assisted local research efforts and facilitated collaboration with IES faculty. In August, IES hosted Dr. Simon Hix of the Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science. Dr. Hix presented a "political economy perspective" to IES faculty on the design of a constitution for a multi-tiered continental-scale polity, and discussed the likely policy implications of the different choices for the EU and European politics. In September 2002, IES hosted Professor Pierre Rosanvallon, Chair of the Modern and Contemporary Politics Department at the College de France, who joined the IES study group on transatlantic relations. Professor Claus Leggewie of the Center for Media and Interactivity at the University of Giessen joined the study group in November 2002 to share his views on the origins of those tensions in the post 9/11 environment. He presented a paper which is available on the IES web site at ies.berkeley.edu/pubs

In January, 2003, IES was pleased to host Alan Milward, Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and former chair in the "History of European Integration" at the European University Institute in Florence. Professor Milward met with IES faculty, graduate students, and other visiting scholars to discuss his new book, "The Rise and Fall of a National Strategy: The UK and the European Community." In April 2003, IES hosted Professor Dr. Gisela Müller-Brandeck-Bocquet, Professor of Political Science at the University of Würzburg, who discussed her research on Franco-German Relations and European Integration. Zafer Senocak, Turkish-German author and a leading voice in debates on multiculturalism in Germany, read from his published and unpublished works on Thursday, February 27.

Other European visitors included: Manfred Roeber, Professor of Public Management at the Technical University of Berlin, who spoke on "Governing European Capitals: Berlin, London, and Paris;" Michael Daxner, Professor of Sociology and former President of the University of Oldenberg, recently returned from a post as the Principal Officer at the UN Mission to Kosovo; Professor Erik Berglof of the Stockholm School of Economics; Professor Jon Lawrenceof the University of Liverpool; Jussi Kauhanen, Professor of Public Health, University of Kuopio, Finland; Professor Paul Windolf from the University of Trier; Professor Michael Brenner from the Department of Jewish Culture and History at the University of Munich; Professor N.F.R. Crafts from the London School of Economics; Professor Paul Ell, Director of the Centre for Data Digitization and Analysis at The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland; Professor Pekka Himanen of the Department of Philosophy, Helsinki University; Professor Christophe Charle of the Université de Paris-I, Institut d' Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine; Professor Tito Cardoso Cunha; Visiting Scholar Tito C. Cunha of the New University, Lisbon, Portugal; Professor Jan Herman Brinks of the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex, England; Professor Raymond Guess of Cambridge University; and Dr. Stefan-Ludwig Hoffman of the Ruhr-University Bochum.

Finally, we are pleased to be working again with Dr. Eckhard Schroeter. Dr. Schroeter holds the position of Visiting Professor in the Department of Political Science and Visiting Scholar at CGES. In addition, he has been appointed by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) to the newly established directorship of the DAAD Consulting Center in San Francisco. Reflecting the outstanding importance of the Bay Area for transatlantic academic exchange programs, this new liaison office is the first of its kind in North America, and part of a high-profile initiative to raise the visibility of study and research opportunities at German universities and research centers. Once fully functional, the DAAD Center will provide students and scholars with information concerning the possibilities of continuing their studies or research work at a German university; it will also make the latest news about DAAD scholarships available. Furthermore, this new DAAD outreach program will establish a forum for DAAD grantees and alumni, as well as international scholars from the Bay Area, to facilitate cross-national exchanges. In order to serve individuals and universities from the wider Bay Area region, the Center, together with the Goethe-Institute (German Cultural Center), will have its administrative base in San Francisco. Professor Schroeter will also cooperate closely with CGES, thus building on already well-established links and successful partnerships to help strengthen the academic transatlantic ties even further. As a case in point, the inauguration of the new DAAD representation on the West Coast was marked by a joint reception during the spring 2002 semester.